Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

The only reason we are in this situation is insufficient societal focus on technology. The virus would be a trifle with better diagnostics, vaccines, drugs. Find it, shield against it, kill it. Like every other predator that has ever come after humans, from lions to polio.

You do realize you're drifting into "making shit up" territory now. Sure there are theoretical vaccines and drugs that could exist to shut down CV-19, but we have no idea what's actually possible. Viruses can be exceedingly tough enemies and this is the toughest we've ever seen.

No, Covid is not anywhere near the 'toughest' virus we've ever seen. Rabies has a death rate of almost 100%

I presume you are defining death rate as % of the population that has caught the disease but hasn't received any type of protection or treatment. More transmittable diseases that cannot be treated would thus be considered "not as tough" despite killing magnitudes more people 1/2

Coronaviruses have been around a long time but the funding to study them only started substantially 20 years ago. (And will explode this year). I think Balaji's statement is almost obvious but maybe we are reading it in different ways.

Yes, funding and research is exploding. It's literally the most important thing in the world right now. What we don't know is what that research will find for us. In theory, we could find a working vaccine and treatment. But that's not guaranteed.